If you're someone who prefers to wash up by hand rather than using a dishwasher, you probably reach for the trusty sponge or scourer to scrub away food remnants from your dishes. However ...

Toronto Public Health says there are at least 11 confirmed cases of Shigella infection, all among those experiencing homelessness. Shigella infections are preventable through simple hygiene ...

If you accidentally take two birth control pills, don’t worry too much. This should not change their effectiveness against pregnancy or affect your period. Here’s what you should do next. If ...

They're technically crustaceans as they're members of the isopod family and are usually found deep in the South China Sea and sold to markets and restaurants. While scientists in the region were ...

The crustaceans, members of the isopod family, are fished from deep water, usually in the South China Sea, and sold in restaurants and other eateries. The study was exploring the sudden popularity ...

A judge in Texas ruled Thursday that three other states can move ahead with their effort to roll back federal rules and make it harder for people across the U.S. to access the abortion drug ...

A notoriously contagious stomach bug’s spread through Arlington has public health experts urging extra precautions. An alert about a wave of suspected norovirus cases went out to Arlington ...

The new isopod species has been named Bathynomus vaderi after the most famous Sith Lord in the Star Wars movie series, Darth Vader, whose helmet resembles the marine animal’s head. The ...

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Isopods are tiny creatures typically measuring under 2.5cm in length, but scientists have just discovered a gigantic one that is more than 10 times the average size. The largest among the newly ...

Microsoft has fixed a bug that was causing some Windows Server 2022 systems with two or more NUMA nodes to fail to start up. NUMA (short for non-uniform memory access) is a computer memory ...

Supergiant sea bugs, including B. vaderi, are members of the isopod family, characterized by their hard, protective exoskeleton and seven pairs of legs. The largest specimen in the study weighed ...